The Goddess Shines on America

After a while, Bezos returned to his seat with two trays.

"Here are the burgers and fries for the two of you. Alice, double-thick beef patties and a large portion of fries, are you sure you can eat them?"

Alice proved her appetite with practical actions. She held the three-inch-thick hamburger in her hand, and her mouth, which seemed extremely small a second ago, instantly grew as huge as a hippopotamus. She swallowed a big piece in one bite!

"Wow!"

Sissy had French fries in her mouth: "Your mouthful is more than five of mine!"

"Hoohoo~ I can eat very much~ Just watch, Sissy, if you don't eat your portion quickly, I might come to snatch it~"

It's also thanks to Alice's extraordinary talent, even though her mouth was stuffed into a balloon, her speech was not delayed at all.

Bezos looked down at his hamburger. After comparing it deliberately, he found that he didn't seem to have a mouth as big as Alice's. Fortunately, he is still a grown man...

Accompanied by the black solo in the restaurant, after chatting and eating for a while, Alice said: "Jeff, since you are majoring in computer science and you are already a sophomore, have you considered working in Silicon Valley in the future?"

Bezos ate French fries slowly: "It would be great if you could go to Silicon Valley, after all, the density of computer companies there is too high. However, the housing prices there are not cheap. If possible, in New York seems to be better off with a company."

Bezos's view is not unreasonable. For a young man born in New Mexico, compared with the "just" booming Silicon Valley, the charm of the Big Apple in New York is naturally needless to say. After all, Yahoo, Google, Facebook and other companies have not gathered on the West Coast. As a high-achieving Ivy League student, it is indeed a normal choice for most people to go to Manhattan to find a good job.

"By the way, you said that your hometown is Albuquerque?"

Alice recalled Bezos's previous self-introduction jokingly, and her eyes lit up: "With Microsoft?"

"Oh, yes, you know the company too."

Bezos was very happy that Alice knew such a top company in the industry: "I heard that Mr. Gates doesn't seem to be renting a house in the city, he just lives in the company. Microsoft can have a hard-working employee like him. Boss, you are so lucky!"

Alice blinked her eyes, although she could also ask Gates to go to Los Angeles, but after thinking about it, it would be better for her to go to Albuquerque next week. In the past few years, she has only been to a few designated tourist attractions even if she travels on vacation. In the continental United States, she has never been to an area like New Mexico.

In any case, the chicken tacos in the previous life are also very famous, isn't it.

After taking a bite of the spicy chicken burger, Alice said vaguely, "What kind of city is Albuquerque?"

How did Bezos know what Alice wanted to ask, shrugged and said: "What kind of... a very nice city, every year on the first weekend of October, we will hold the International Hot Air Balloon Festival, in that From time to time, hot air balloon enthusiasts from all over the world fly huge hot air balloons of different shapes. At the same time, tourists also drive the tourism industry here, and the price of hotel rooms has also skyrocketed, so it also attracts many people to come here in RVs. enjoy to the full."

"In addition, many Hollywood movies and TV series are also filmed here. After all, the area with both Mexican style and Gobi Desert landscape is Texas besides our place. Many early cowboy films are either made by Decker. Sass, or New Mexico, these two continents account for more than 80 percent of all cowboy film locations.”

When he mentioned his hometown, Bezos, of course, introduced it endlessly, and the two girls enjoyed the free lunch silently in his long speech.

But even so, Sissy still didn't give Bezos a good face. In her opinion, a McDonald's set meal for two is only ten dollars, and at such a low price, she can invite two young and beautiful girls to accompany her for lunch. This 20-year-old man is taking advantage of it!

So, while eating, Sissy didn't forget to glance at Alice.

"Hmm...it doesn't seem too peaceful there, does it?"

Alice deliberately ignored Sissy's dissatisfied eyes, but said very seriously: "New Mexico is the southern border state of the United States, next to Mexico, and the border city of Epasol can go directly to Albuquerque via Highway 25. Hey, Jeff, is the smuggling situation serious in your area?"

Bezos pondered for a while, and said: "It's okay. The state police have always been very strong in cracking down on smuggling, but if we say that there are indeed a lot of Mexicans. We are here, Arizona, and Texas. You run into those people a lot. Oh yeah, even in California, they fill a lot of jobs like cooks, cleaners, cashiers.”

After finishing speaking, he blinked and said, "Why did you suddenly think of asking this?"

Alice slowed down her chewing, but didn't answer.

As a Chinese, Alice will of course pay special attention to other minorities.

When it comes to ethnic minorities, it doesn't matter that Alice has lived in the United States for many years, and she knew this situation even in her previous life. Although the entire United States has been called a melting pot, specific to each race, their geographical distribution, urban areas of residence, and even occupational divisions are relatively fixed. It can be said that although the United States promotes the concept of democracy and equality every day, it is often the most obvious in terms of class.

Not to mention the old-fashioned black and white issues, Mexicans are one of the most typical characteristics.

First of all, whether it is legal entry or smuggling, the three southern states of the United States are their most preferred areas, just like North Korean defectors and South Korean businessmen often choose to live in Jilin Province, especially YB City, North Korea The same as living in ethnic autonomous regions.

Second, considering the education level of most Mexicans, coupled with the rampant smuggling situation in the South, many people can only engage in certain occupations. Supermarket cashiers are considered relatively high-end, especially for those who came here illegally, basically they can only serve as kitchen assistants and waiters in various restaurants.

Of course, this is generally considered to be very good. In terms of the composition of Mexicans in the entire United States, illegal immigration still occupies the mainstream after all. For them, it is like the old farmers in the mountainous areas of western China who suddenly went to the coastal cities in the east to make a living. In addition to basically only being able to engage in industries such as fruit stalls and cleaners, they often have to endure various additional troubles.

Alice has read related reports in the newspapers several times. The truth about smuggling is that a group of scalpers collect impoverished refugees on the streets of Mexico, sneak them into the United States, and live in poor security but cheap rent. In the area, dozens of people are crowded into a house like pigs, and they are charged hundreds of dollars a month for rent, water and electricity.

They get up in the early hours of the morning every day, eat some simple rice and boiled beans, and then are thrown in every corner of the city to sell fresh fruits just picked from the farm. Standing there for more than ten hours a day on average, with no food to eat, no water to drink, and even unable to go to the toilet. A large box of fruit sells for 10 yuan. After a hard day, I can only earn 40 to 50 US dollars a day, or a week. To 300 U.S. dollars, but after paying the hundreds of dollars of rent, water and electricity needed by the scalpers every month, the remaining hundreds of dollars must be paid to the cross-border trafficking fees of the scalpers, usually ranging from more than 2,000 to 3,000 U.S. dollars per person.

When the debts are paid off, they have lived in the United States for about half a year. After that, they usually send most of the hundreds of dollars they earn every month to their hometowns in Mexico, where they have their wives, children and relatives. Waiting for the life-saving money here!

Some residents in some small towns often feel that these old inkmen standing on the side of the road are an eyesore and hinder traffic, so the police will come naturally. As soon as the police came, they would confiscate the fruits of the old Mos. Not only did the old Mos have to pay the scalpers for the cost of the fruits, they had no income for a day, and because they didn’t have a car, they had to walk back to their residence on two legs to report to the scalpers.

In fact, especially in Alice's opinion, the laws of the United States are often very strange. Although the judiciary has a fine division of labor, it will only strictly abide by the laws and regulations of its own small territory!

Just like the police in a small town know that these are illegal immigrants, but they are not immigration officials, so it is not their responsibility to control illegal immigrants. On the street, and then ignore everything!

Being confiscated with fruit and issued a fine, the old Mos feel sorry for the fresh and tender fruit being thrown into the trash can, and even more for the money they can't earn and the compensation they will pay. However, they will never go to court to argue or Try to reduce fines.

Because he is an illegal immigrant with no status, his cries and defenses are even more stupid and no one will listen to him!

"So, since there's a lot of Mexicans out there..."

Alice's eyes flickered, and she said in a low voice: "There should be many gangs, right? After all, the whole of Mexico can be said to be dominated by gangs. These immigrants should follow suit, right?"

"Well, that's right, so if you want to go to Albuquerque, be careful not to go to the places of those old inks."

Bezos kept munching on his burger, not thinking twice about why Alice suddenly asked these questions.

"Oh, I see."

So he didn't even notice that when Alice nodded slowly, her bright blue eyes were shining brightly, as if there was a semi-solidified high-energy fluid rippling in it.